Category: Science News

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That’s equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way […]

Maunakea and Haleakalā, Hawaiʻi – It may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the Sun is actually orbiting around the Milky […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own Sun is a loner, many stars like our Sun orbit similar stars, while a host of […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal […]

A new, robust catalog is out featuring 126 confirmed and candidate exoplanets discovered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in collaboration with W. […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – The discovery of a planet similar in size to Venus that’s orbiting a star in the neighborhood of our solar system raises hopes that astronomers may someday […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system traveling around our galaxy named Ursa Major III […]

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, and while we know today these events create the building blocks of life itself, there […]